, 1887-07-14
MARY JAMES TRAVELS.
WITH DlCKEY UNDER HER ARM SHE
GOES ALL ABOUT LONDON.

Especial Correspondence
LONDON, June 1S.-aDickey," said l this
morning as we started out, shave you got
any penniesf'
"Nary IA penny" said she, ofrhandedly.
"What do you want with It'll Where's your
letter of creditf'
Don't be so unsalted, please" said I; ave
got to fee a lot of people today, and l want
the money in small doses"
You want it in feeble amounts, as 1t
were, " said she, punning as usual
al want it," said ], sharply, "and that's
enough"
~oh," said she, sarcastically, off that's
enough, why do you ask for any more1'
We lowered n while longer, and then l
compromised by taking all her pennies, and
went out, Dickey remarking as she sat down
on the top of the bus:
"They say the typical Englishman is only
found in the higher circles, and perhaps he is,
but the typical American is found all over
England, wherever there is a British subject
touching his hat and waiting for something
he hasn't earned"
The fee system, or rather fee sentiment, in
England, l think, does more to degrade the
lower classes than any other one thing this
side of the remnant of feudalism in royalty.
Men who, similarly situated in America,
would knock a man down for offering them a
tip, take 1t gladly here, and do it with a SER
Witty that is painful to our independent ideas.
We have the system in America, it is true,
but there the recipient receives it with a GER
tain air Of right, which makes one feel that
the laborer is worthy of his hire, while in
England they fawn and cringe and bow and
touch their hats till you want to take a club
and break a head or two. l don't know how
high up they are found, but l know when l
went TO the queens stables at Buckingham
palace the liveried slave in the office told me
l could not get in until l got n ticket, aud l
could only get that by writing n letter to the
muster of the horse. 1 started Off back to my
quarters to do that, when he sidled around
and told me it was against the rules, but he
thought he could find me n ticket. l put up
n shilling, and he went to the desk and fixed
inc in a few moments. The shilling cost more
than an envelope and stamp, but it was more
immediate in its effect. The policemen will
also take anything r'except a prisoner" sug-
gested Dickey, looking over my shoulder) you
offer, and they don't appear to feel any the
less manly for it. Lots of walters at hotels
md restaurants get their pay that way, and
it is so even in private houses. 1t is told
that the Duke of Argyle, who is not rich
Except in n long line of useless ancestry,
wanted TO employ a butler, and would not
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wages, because, as he told him,
he had very many guests, and the butler
always had his tips from them. Many hotel
and restaurant waters pay the proprietors
for the privilege of bleeding their guests,
and the head porter of one of the best London
hotels is reported as paying s 1000 n year for
his place, besides a present of a fine pair of
horses to the landlord. A Pullman car por-
ter, in comparison with this oriental mag
nfGratrn haADV.nr I,N I,ttIa la%t.. H..
tramp. The whole business Is legalized beg
gary, pure and simple, and is a direct out
growth of feudal aristocracy. But enough
of this on paper. Come to England if you
want TO see what n terrible nuisance it is.
l met a woman the other day who made
me feel good nll over. She was not very
pretty, and she wasn't very young. but she
had sand in her craw, and l was glad of it.
She happened to fall into a general converse
ton in n car, the subject being English
women. 1 had said something about the
meek look of submission so perceptible in
their faces, and Dickey seconded my motion.
81 don't quite understand, !" said tho lady.
"Why,n said ], 'all English women seem
to hold men as superior beings. They defer
TO them in all things; they wait on them and
for them; they coddle them and smile for
them, and bear all sorts Of burdens for them;
they sit with folded hands, content to DO dis
posed of as may suit the fancy of lordly man,
and they make me tired. American women
are not that way ut all. They may not have
the right to vote and make laws, but they
make the men do a good deal of the submis-
sion business and keep things pretty evenly
balanced"
"You are quito correct about the English
women" she said, with a Susan B. Anthony
snap to her voice, "but they will not DO SO
always. They arc beginning to appreciate
woman's true position, and the time will como
when English women will show to English
men that Englishmen will have to go away
from England to play the deity"
She went ahead at this rate for some time.
and, though l didn't find out who she was, l
have hopes that this leaven will leaven the
whole lump and a female Magma Charta will
some day be filed among the British archives.
In a line with this: l went over to the
house of COMMONS one day, thinking, of
course, l could go in on the usual permit Of
the speaker; but, 10 and behold, they stuck
me in with the rest of the women III q nasty
little dark cubby hole, with a wire screen
shutting it Off from the chamber, because,
f%orsooth, women are not allowed in the sacred
precincts Of that legislative body. l peeped
through those wires for about a minute, and
feeling that the whole crowd was a lot of
monkeys in a cage l left the place thoroughly
~disgusted.
London is not a city of parks, as Paris is,
but it has many, and one may walk through
several miles OF shaded avenues from q point
almost at Trafalgar square, through the Mall,
Green park, st, james and Hyde park to
Kensington. Regents park to Primrose hill
is another stretch, but Hyde park is the lum-
tum spot, and there the swells go to drive and
ride and walk, and there "a cat may look at
a king and "a dog may bay the MOON or
words to that effect. Rotten row, famous in
fashionable circles, is the road where they
ride, and in the season it is full of men,
women and grooms on horseback. 1t is a
mile or so in length, n hundred feet wide and
is three or four inches deep in dirt, so the
horses will have good, soft hooing. The best
riders usually are the grooms, next are the
ladies and lastly the men.
"Why do they call it Rotten rowF' said
Dickey, as we sat watching the riders ono
morning.
at was the favorite place of Charles IL
said l, "and was called Route en- Roi kings
road, which later became corrupted into
Rotten row.
"Ughl" said she with a shrug of disgust,
"just like an Englishman. When a thing i
corrupted it is rotten, so he calls the corrup-
ton OF Route en- Roi, Rotten row. Well,
Il may be expressive, but he might have made